Nepal Airlines signs MoU for Airbus A320 and A330. Nepal’s national carrier, Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) is modernising its international fleet with one A330-200 wide-body and one Airbus A320 single aisle aircraft. The new Airbus aircraft will be deployed on international services to Japan and will for the very first time connect Nepal to Europe with direct flights.

Barely five months after flight D7 192 arrived in Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu to mark AirAsia X’s arrival into Nepal’s picturesque capital city, the Kuala Lumpur-based long haul low cost airline has launched the One Laptop Per Child Program, a community outreach project in partnership with OLE Nepal.

Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) has signed a firm order for two Airbus A320 aircraft equipped with Sharklet fuel saving wing tip devices. Nepal Airlines currently flies to four international destinations and 25 domestic locations in the heart of the Himalayas. The new A320s are fully equipped with latest Required Navigation Performance (RNP) technologies, allowing the aircraft to

Etihad Airways has appointed Ms Pawana Shrestha as its country manager in Nepal. Based in Kathmandu, Ms Shrestha will take over from outgoing acting country manager, John Rees Evans, to oversee the airline’s commercial operations in Nepal.

PATA Adventure Travel and Responsible Tourism Conference and Mart to Return to Nepal. The PATA Adventure Travel and Responsible Tourism Conference and Mart (AT&RTCM) will return to Pokhara, Nepal in 2011. The AT&RTCM will take place at the Fulbari Resort and Spa, 7-11 February 2011. Under the theme ‘Social Give Back: Doing Well by Doing Good’, the conference will

PATA gets ATTA and IUCN Endorsement for Adventure Travel Event in Nepal. PATA has received backing from for its 2010 Adventure Travel and Responsible Tourism Conference and Mart in Nepal. The Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have both endorsed the event which will take place at the Soaltee Crowne Plaza in Kathma

According to PATA, Nepal has so far seen foreign visitor arrivals by air increase by 18.4% to reach 168,958 for the first five months of 2011. The country is nominally on target to reach its goal of one million visitors this year, a figure that includes both air arrivals and land-based visitors, mostly from India.